Definition of Elemental

Elemental

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.

Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.

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Elemental Quotations

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl Sandburg

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
Marco Rubio

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Maggie Smith

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Stefan Zweig

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
Bill Griffith

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
Hjalmar Branting

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
Christopher Nolan

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Henry Beston

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
Charles Wagner

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Elemental Translations

elemental in Dutch is elementair
elemental in German is elementar
elemental in Italian is elementare, natura secondo
elemental in Spanish is natural, elemenval, elemental

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